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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Renee DeResta.

Renee is the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.

She led a multi-year investigation into the IRA, Russia's fake news factory, and she's advised

Congress. She's also an idea's contributor at Wired and the Atlantic.

We talk about the difference between misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda. We talk about public health messaging. We talk about the difference between misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.

We talk about public health messaging.

We talk about hashtags and trending topics and the effect they can have on the real world.

We talk about the increasing power of influencers and independent content creators like myself.

We talk about censorship and algorithms on big tech platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

We talk about Wikipedia as a source of accurate knowledge. We talk about how you should do

research on topics you care about in a context where you can't always trust mainstream sources.

We talk about how to avoid audience capture as a content creator, and we talk about

whether math is racist. So without further ado, Renee DeResta. All right, Renee DeResta, thanks so much

for coming on my show. Thanks for having me. So it's been a couple years since I met you, I think, definitely from before the pandemic.

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